[Click on the spider for video] Arthropods vibrating! I've become increasingly interested in why several animals vibrate, while flying, standing on a tree or the ground, or spiders in the web... this interested behavior is though to function as an anti-predators defensive strategy. However, very little is know about the mechanisms, function or evolutionary history of this trait. I look forward for feeding on this topic!

The Elias lab was present in CALDay @ UC Berkeley,
joining the amazing display of the Essig Musuem of Entomology.
We had a poster, preserved spiders, and live harvestmen, plus high speed videos.

The Elias lab, and the Entomology Student Organization at UC Berkeley with an outreach stand during the Alumni and Family Day. October, 2014.
Photos by Camila Vieira

A field project with undergraduate American students in a semester long Tropical Biology class in Costa Rica (by the Organization for Tropical Studies, OTS).
Photo by Mauricio J. García

Outreach publication on the effect of river noise in the vocalization of a bird (pdf)